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“He was dead tired and he was still talking. ... He definitely brings fear out of people because like they see he’s confident. And he backs up everything he says.”

New reporting by the Atlantic on Tuesday backs up the general’s assertions.

As Eisenberg talks, he often stops and backs up and restarts a phrase, as if there is a pencil in his mind that edits his dialogue as he is speaking.

“So, you walk outside, and you open up your car door as an L.A. police car drives by. You put your things into your car, and the police car backs up,” he said.

“As governor with a narrow one-seat majority, he passed paid family leave, expanded child tax credit, made record investments in public education — we know that he backs up his words with action.”